Okay, so like, there were a bunch of candidates there, most of whom just went through and got their four interviews and were sent off with a handshake.
For me, they were really impressed, so much so that they said I'd be getting an offer next week, and "since we're probably going to be working together, why don't you join us for lunch so we can get to know you?"
They asked me a lot of "hypothetical questions" about how I'd solve various things (like various linked-list things or fairly basic-but-tricky CS problems I hadn't even thought about in a few years), though in the very first interview, the group's manager asked me how I'd do a certain thing (which I can't talk about because I signed an NDA before saying anything but let me just say that it's REALLY DAMN COOL) and he was like, "Well, in five minutes, you've come up with the solution which took me somewhat longer to come up with."
Anyway, yeah, they were pretty impressed all around. And I was pretty impressed with THEM all around, too, which is of course very important.
Ennyhoo. None of the HR-type questions ever came up (like "What are your greatest weaknesses" or anything); it was a purely technical interview. Also, the corporate culture there is very egalitarian; managers actually write code, too, and it's a great big thinktank of smart people working together to make everything as cool as possible.
They also actively encourage working on opensource stuff in spare time and are very OSS-friendly, so I can keep on working on Solace et al as long as it doesn't contain any $COMPANY-specific/competitive stuff and so on. Also they're very Linux/OSXy there. And stuff.
I'm not gonna say publicly until I have an official offer (though I've mentioned it on the friends-only side).
Even when I am working there, I'm not gonna be saying much about the job, just because this time around it's extremely clear that it's somewhere I want to work (and I want to see continue to succeed) and the confidential stuff NEEDS to be confidential just because of the nature of the industry they're in. (No, not government spook stuff.)
#5313lago (unregistered)04/22/2005 06:35 pmIf you won't tell them, I will
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For me, they were really impressed, so much so that they said I'd be getting an offer next week, and "since we're probably going to be working together, why don't you join us for lunch so we can get to know you?"
They asked me a lot of "hypothetical questions" about how I'd solve various things (like various linked-list things or fairly basic-but-tricky CS problems I hadn't even thought about in a few years), though in the very first interview, the group's manager asked me how I'd do a certain thing (which I can't talk about because I signed an NDA before saying anything but let me just say that it's REALLY DAMN COOL) and he was like, "Well, in five minutes, you've come up with the solution which took me somewhat longer to come up with."
Anyway, yeah, they were pretty impressed all around. And I was pretty impressed with THEM all around, too, which is of course very important.
Ennyhoo. None of the HR-type questions ever came up (like "What are your greatest weaknesses" or anything); it was a purely technical interview. Also, the corporate culture there is very egalitarian; managers actually write code, too, and it's a great big thinktank of smart people working together to make everything as cool as possible.
They also actively encourage working on opensource stuff in spare time and are very OSS-friendly, so I can keep on working on Solace et al as long as it doesn't contain any $COMPANY-specific/competitive stuff and so on. Also they're very Linux/OSXy there. And stuff.
It's not... like, y'know... Microsoft.. is it?
Man, talk about your triumvirate tour of the US.
Maybe?
(I'm 99% sure it wasn't Microsoft... it was a joke
Even when I am working there, I'm not gonna be saying much about the job, just because this time around it's extremely clear that it's somewhere I want to work (and I want to see continue to succeed) and the confidential stuff NEEDS to be confidential just because of the nature of the industry they're in. (No, not government spook stuff.)
To your mobile phone.